Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Inwa"k-to (Prairie Band Potawatomi) in 1910 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923) and expedition interpreter Leo Walker (Sac and Fox), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian; collected from the Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Artist/Maker
- Carlos Gove, Non-Indian, 1817-1900
- Previous owner
- Inwa"k to, Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Leo Walker, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Date created
- 1845-1854
- Object Name
- Pipe tomahawk (No image available)
- Media/Materials
- Iron/steel head, wood, brass, silver, pewter
- Techniques
- Inlaid
- Object Type
- Personal items
- Indigenous Term
- pku'm sa gi'n poa gan
